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...understanding with RTH was only a paper agreement, not good enough to stand up to possible attacks by other Mission Hill residents, those living on the other side of Huntington Ave. The BRA might be sensitive to such protests when considering whether to give MASCO the go-ahead. The residents across the street would not benefit from the housing, but would share the pollution. What if these residents were to rally support in the community against the plant--visible, angry antagonisms that could burst out at the BRA's hearing on the project's building permit and jeopardize the plant...
Grady works by organizing. In a show of strength in June, Grady took the podium away from the BRA during a hearing on the environmental impact of the power plant, and never gave it up, to the joy of about 150 antipower plant Mission Hill residents in attendance. Grady's feelings on the power plant are simple. He sees the battle lines drawn not against a pro-power plant faction but against those who want to turn his predominantly working-class neighborhood into an upper class research center. As he said at one hearing this summer...
With the last hearing over and the BRA currently deliberating on the question of the building permit, it's difficult to predict exactly what will happen in Mission Hill. But there are some definite possibilities...
...weeks, after some more perfunctory investigation, the BRA will probably rule in favor of the power plant and grant the zoning variances that are needed for the plant's immediate construction. It will probably do so in part because it wants the housing project, but mostly because those in opposition to the power plant don't carry much political clout in City Hall...
...cards have been stacked against us from the beginning," Murphy says. "There was no mention of our alternatives in the original impact statement--we were never really given a shot. People entertained us, the BRA listened to us, and we gave them information, but they never really did anything with it." What astonishes Murphy and the other people fighting the power plant, is that every city authority has turned its back on their objections, not the overwhelming power that Harvard has brought to bear on Mission Hill